Following long tradition, we are informing Statalist first:
Stata 11 begins shipping Monday, July 27.

Great news. Some initial reactions:

* I am most surprised by the news that manuals will be available in
pdf. That has been a longtime request, but everyone's guess was that
this wasn't in Stata's best financial interest. Obviously something
has changed that assessment.

* I'm happy to see multiple imputation in there. There have been
some nice individual efforts along these lines, but I'm
guessing/hoping that Stata will now provide much better support.

* Also looking forward to checking out margins and state-space modeling.

* I don't quite see what the big deal is with factor variables. So,
I don't have to type xi anymore? Well, I guess that is nice... but I
imagine the advantages go way beyond that.

* I wonder if any user-written post-estimation commands will get
zapped...factor variables especially sound like they might zap
something that was looking for the actual variables used, but maybe not.